Nouns

1. A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea.

2. Singular nouns name one person, place, thing, or idea. (girl, bush, lady, leaf, foot, deer)

3. Plural nouns name more than one person, place, thing, or idea. (girls, bushes, ladies, leaves, feet, deer)

4. Common nouns name GENERAL people, places, things, or ideas. (A girl visited a museum in a city.)

5. Proper nouns name SPECIFIC people, places, things, or ideas. ALWAYS capitalize proper nouns. (Linda visited the American Craft Museum in New York.)

6. Compund nouns are two or more words together that name a person, place, thing, or idea. (countdown, Space Age, merry-go-round)

7. Collective nouns name GROUPS of people. places. things, or ideas. It is usually followed by a singular verb because the group usually acts together as a single unit. (The team is coming onto the field now. The team are all doing the same thing together.)HOWEVER, it sometimes can be plural when members of a group are acting as separate individuals, not as a single unit. (The team are unable to make up their minds. Team members are not acting as a single unit, but as separate people.) Examples-tumble of feathers, clamor of birds

8. Concrete nouns name people, places, things, or ideas that can be SEEN, TOUCHED, TASTED, HEARD, or SMELLED. (grapes, onions, pears, song

9. Abstract nouns name ideas, feelings, or qualities. ( hope, love, chivalry,courage,devotion,justice, truth, courtesy)

10. RULES FOR FORMING PLURAL NOUNS:

• MOST singular nouns, just add an S. (eye=eyes, rose=roses, sail=sails)

• Nouns that end in S, X, CH, SH, just add es. (fox=foxes, boss=bosses, watch=watches, radish=radishes)

• Nouns that end with a VOWEL and y, just add an s. (monkey=monkeys, boy=boys)

• Nouns that end with a CONSONANT and y, change the y to i and add es. (daisy=daisies, berry=berries)

• Nouns that end in f, lf, fe, change to v, then add es. (knife=knives, half=halves, wife=wives,)

• Nouns that end with a consonant, then an o, add es to the end. (tomato=tomatoes, potato=potato=potatoes)

11. Possessive nouns shows ownership. (tiger's stripes, lion's mane)

12. RULES FOR FORMING POSSESSIVE NOUNS:

• Singular nouns, add 's .(Sara's aunts)

• Plural nouns ending in S, add an ' .(aunts' rugs)

• Plural nouns NOT ending in S, add 's . (children's handicrafts)

13. Determiners are words that signal a noun is on its way. Nouns will come after a determiner. They are numbers, artices, (twenty-six cucumbers, a fish, an eel, the China Sea, this box, that fox, these hats, those bows, some flowers, few birds, several trees, many bees, her ship, its sail, our king, his reign,)